User Experience Software

The list of software tools available for user experience professionals continues to grow. From card-sorting applications for Information Architects to prototyping applications for Interface Designers, here are a few tools I’ve been exposed to recently.

Update: I'm only including software specifically built for a particular user experience methodology like card sorting, user recruiting, requirements gathering, etc. General purpose software like Photoshop, Visio, Flash, and Omnigraffle are therefore omitted from this list.

Enables you to log computer events such as mouse clicks, scrolling, and keystrokes, the recording of text strings, the resizing of windows, pop-ups, which windows and applications are active, and more. [thanks Dave]

Though not a software package you can run yourself, MindCanvas (part of Uzanto’s research service offering) enables researchers to gather insights about customers' thoughts & feelings through Game-like Elicitation Methods (GEMs).